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Short Talks
Big Ideas
Transportation at the Tech Frontier
http://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/
LIMITS OF THE UNTETHERED CITY
Anthony Townsend
Institute for the Future & Rudin Center
Limits in the
Untethered City
Why Untethered Communications is
All That Matters.
And Why We May Never Have Enough
Of It.
Dr. Anthony Townsend
Institute for the Future
NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain… …and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone.”
Nicola Tesla in Collier’s magazine
…in 1926 !
1920s
1946
“2,000 subscribers in New York City shared just 12 channels, and typically waited 30 minutes to place a call.”
-AT&T
Not enough capacity!
Start slicing the city up
slicing space
Digital cellular - slicing time
3G: back to slicing space
apps need lots of data
“If you had a quarter of the population of Manhattan watching a video over their handset, it would take approximately 100,000 cell sites, or a huge amount of additional spectrum.”
-Eli Noam, Columbia Business School
full steam ahead?
Why do you care?
untethered devices benefit transit
And make it easier to use
it’s the new infrastructure of mobility
“the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain… all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole…”
Tesla was right!
Mo
Mobile phone users in Paris
GETTING AROUND CITIES
John Geraci
faberNovel
Context
+
Perspective
John Geraci
john.geraci@fabernovel.com
TAXI GPS DATA & THE BREADCRUMB PROJECT
Sophia Choi
NYC DOT
TAXI GPS DATA Sophia J. Choi
Transportation Planner, New York City Department of Transportation
April 9th, 2012
Photo credit: Murray Mitchell
TAXI GPS DATA OVERVIEW
• provided by the Taxi Limousine Commission (TLC)
• track pick-up and drop-off points, trip distance/time
and fare information
• post-processed by DOT: filtering, aggregating and
assigning trips to zones
• 13,000 taxicabs generate about 13 million citywide
taxi trips per month
• Over 800 million taxi trips recorded since 2007
TAXI GPS DATA APPLICATIONS
• Applications
– NYC traffic trends
– Pre- and post-project evaluations
• Regional transportation planning and modeling
(BPM, Origin/Destination, demand estimation)
• Visualizations
– 2011 Manhattan Speed by Day
– Daytime Traffic Speeds
– A New York Minute
– Pick-up and Drop-off Animation
2011 MANHATTAN SPEEDS BY DAY
(Source: 2010 Sustainable Streets Index by NYCDOT)
DAYTIME TRAFFIC SPEEDS WEEKDAYS (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
• GPS data for short distance trips
(<= 0.5 miles) from “typical”
weekdays
• Speeds are calculated for small
zones using the median speed
for taxi trips in each zone.
• Data reflect the median zonal
speeds rather than speeds in
individual streets.
• Zones with insufficient number of
taxi trips are not included.
(Source: 2010 Sustainable Streets Index by NYCDOT)
A NEW YORK MINUTE
• Sample trips to show
where you can go in 7-
minute taxi ride
• 7 minutes is the most
frequent taxi trip duration
• Sample trips from May
2011
(Created by Stanislav Parfenov)
Midnight to 1AM 9AM to 10AM 5PM – 6PM
January 13, 2009
PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF ACTIVITIES
THE FUTURE: THE BREADCRUMB PILOT PROJECT
• Current Taxi GPS data only contain positional
information for pick-up and drop-off
• The Breadcrumb project has GPS loggers taking
snapshots every second
• Breadcrumb data will reflect the roadway
conditions by “time of day”
• The pilot project will determine
– Minimal # of taxis GPS loggers to generate useful
statistics for New York City
– Whether or not per-second signals is sufficient or
excessive
SAMPLE TAXI GPS DATA
• Pick-up and Drop-off Time Information
• Pick-up and Drop-off Location Information
• Fare/Trip Information
THANK YOU
SOCIAL TRAVEL IN THE ERA OF THE SMARTPHONE
Andrew Mondschein
NYU Rudin Center
Travel is Social
The Italian “Passeggiata”
Cruising
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L TRAIN NOTWORK
Mark Krawczuk
WeMakeCoolSh.it
A Pirate WiFi intranet on the New York Subway
by
We are a creative consultancy that works with start-ups, brands and agencies to produce innovative ideas.
People ride the train packed together but rarely interact
Almost everyone has a mobile device but
without an internet connection they are a bit boring
Create a local WiFi intranet accessible by anyone with a mobile device
Give passengers a reason and a way to
interact with the people around them and artists in their community
Create a LoFi mobile site accessible from any mobile browser
Feature a chat room for people to chat with people around them
Feature content from local artists Provide newsfeeds from popular sites
Create tiny battery powered web servers that can be carried on the train in unassuming shopping bags
Have one person, carrying a server, on every
train between the Morgan and 8th Ave stops, on the L train, during rush hour
Let’s go to the video…
Create a clever flyer to pass out to commuters outside the station and at local cafes and places of interest
Press Blogs Tweets Cassandra
Symposium GitHub
Focus on the idea not the tech Applying the same thinking to different
situations
http://wemakecoolsh.it/
NEW FARE PAYMENT SYSTEMS
Elizabeth Paul
MTA
MTA Tap & Ride™:
The future of fare collection
Elizabeth Paul, MTA New Fare Payment Systems
April 9, 2012
© 2012 Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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MetroCard today
A card-based system, all paid-in-advance.
Drawbacks
• Obsolete, nearing end of life
• High fare collection costs
• Inflexible fare policy
• Locked in a proprietary system
• Long bus boarding times
© 2012 Metropolitan Transportation Authority
• MTA costs averaged 15¢ per $1 revenue collected.
• MTA issued over 200M MetroCards in 2010.
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The future of fare collection is
MTA Tap & Ride™
© 2012 Metropolitan Transportation Authority
An account-based system using an “open” payment
architecture.
The Infrastructure
Open Payment
Network
Subway Turnstiles
MTA Servers
© 2012 Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Bus Farebox
In-station Kiosks
Reload Network
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Technology and data
75 © 2012 Metropolitan Transportation Authority
• Using open standards. MTA part of the “open
payment network”.
• Accept any contactless payment device.
• A ride can be purchased as you enter.
• Reload anywhere (online, app, SMS).
• Aggregate statistics on ridership and fare media
sales and use.
• Potential web service for fare table queries.
• Travel and purchase history data available to account
holders.
• Potential for personalized stats, visualization.
Other transit agencies exploring open payments
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles County
Dallas
Washington DC
South Jersey/Philadelphia
Philadelphia
NY/NJ
New Jersey
New York City
London
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I HEART M15
Lizzy Showman & Kathleen Fitzgerald
School of Visual Arts
THE COLLABORATIVE CITY PLAN
Frank Hebbert
OpenPlans
Short Talks, Big Ideas:
Transportation at the Tech Frontier
The Collaborative City Plan
April 9, 2013.
Frank Hebbert, OpenPlans @fkh
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– DID U COMMENT ON
PLAZA PROPOSAL?
PUBLIC MEETING TMRO.
REPLY WITH UR IDEAS.
XOXO DOT.
Civic Engagement and Urban Planning
See you in 2014.
Frank Hebbert, OpenPlans
@fkh
Short Talks
Big Ideas
Transportation at the Tech Frontier
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http://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/
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